Written by the BizTalk Product Manager and one of the pioneers of XML technology, this book documents the power of BizTalk like no other! Full case studies of corporations using BizTalk for B2B and B2C applications. Provides complete coverage of system architecture, application integration, messaging, BizTalk Server Studio, and migration. Part of Microsoft's early adopter BizTalk 2004 marketing campaign. Learn how to use Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2004 as an Enterprise Application Integration tool, especially for rapid deployment B2B and B2C e-commerce applications. Developers learn how to exploit the key strengths of BizTalk Server- information flow design, integration interface tracking, and performance management. Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Developer's Guide covers the why and how of system integration; gives a technology roadmap for the future; covers system architecture, and explains how to develop and monitor messages within a BizTalk application. The authors explain how BizTalk Server Studio can work in conjunction with Visual Studio .NET to orchestrate business processes and create integrated business systems, as well as BizTalk Server management, monitoring and deployment. An entire section of the book is dedicated to real-world case studies of businesses using BizTalk Server on a daily basis, revealing dramatic success and the possible bumps along the way to full integration. Scott Woodgate, MCSD is Microsoft's Technical Product Manager for BizTalk Server 2004. He was previously project manager for building e-commerce Web applications at Microsoft. Before immigrating to Redmond, he was an e-commerce project manager at Datacom in New Zealand where he was responsible for building complex Web solutions using all aspects of Windows DNA, Site Server Commerce Edition and many other technologies. Stephen T. Mohr is a senior systems architect with Omicron Consulting, Inc. and a key member of Omicron's XMLabs. A pioneer of XML deployment along with his colleagues, he has become one of the nation's leading authorities on XML.